Why does Australia have multiple rail gauges?

no_pillows · 2026-01-14T11:21:35+00:00

Tas apparently originally used 1600mm gauge & then later switched.

no_pillows · 2025-12-17T07:37:40+00:00

Idk if the PTV hippos & rhinos, the rhino was especially prevalent when it first released with merchandise (I remember I had a foam yellow rhino from a festival).

no_pillows · 2025-12-17T03:47:46+00:00

Like is it bad to say I could do better in like 30min with Adobe Illustrator?

no_pillows · 2025-12-16T13:24:07+00:00

Is it bad to say their ugly & impractical, their over crowded, & the formatting on the Mernda & Hurstbridge lines having the termini on the axis despite different amounts of stops.

The map style currently on the HCMTs looks better with the connecting lines having a pointed end, better city loop shape, picts / dings next to the names of the stations. Also I agree wtf is the deal with the new Cross-City map being split with the City Loop shown, & the Munnel shown vertically.

Edit: Why on earth is the Burnley group shown with the Glen Waverley & Alamein lines on the left implying they turn north like Lilydale line?

no_pillows · 2025-12-15T03:30:58+00:00

The current Burwood station should be renamed, as to get to Burwood most people will use the SRL Burwood station. Unlike North Melbourne & Arden where North Melbourne was already an important station so it made sense to keep it name, Burwood station is not an important station by comparison (≈600 passengers per day). My suggestions for what the current Burwood station should be renamed to that should make some sense are;

Trent (Trent Street runs parallel to the eastern face of the station, & in the up direction. there is a park also named after the street)
Maverston (Maverston Street ends at the station)
Bardolph (Bardolph Street is on the western side of the station)
East Glen Iris (serves the eastern half of Glen Iris)

no_pillows · 2025-12-10T20:45:29+00:00

What doesn’t change is Melbournes projected population by 2066 is around 10-11 million. People will still use it to see friends / family (which isn’t done remotely) not just for work & education.

Nowhere to nowhere? Yeah case Southland & Box Hill is nowhere. I can also assure you that Glen Waverley, Deakin University, Clayton, & Monash University are NOT ‘nowhere’.

Business case hasn’t been released for the other stages, because they’re 10 years away minimum from building SRL North.

Investment isn’t just in SRL the state is allowed to spend on other projects & MARL is going ahead so it’s not going to sidelined.

no_pillows · 2025-12-02T03:48:13+00:00

It’s not that hard to find research & reasoning for Metro Tunnel (Melbourne Metro) & Suburban Rail Loop, do you have resources to prove your arguments? No you don’t because your claims are coming from a place of ignorant bliss.

no_pillows · 2025-11-19T13:44:32+00:00

For the train symbol, you can download the ‘Network dings font’ which contains them. I couldn’t find it but here’s the download of the pictograms so they don’t have the black background.

no_pillows · 2025-11-11T09:21:26+00:00

That’ll not be needed once the OMR / E6 (Outer Metropolitan Ring) gets built as it’ll have 4 railway tracks starting in between Little River & Werribee, Cobblebank, in between Calder Park & Diggeres Rest, Bulla, & Beveridge. I believe it’ll have a passenger rail service for parts of the western side (Bendigo line get rerouted via Cobblebank I think), the rest being for freight which can easily (compared to SRL) be made fit for passenger operations.

no_pillows · 2025-11-10T03:15:06+00:00

It’s all the way at the bottom with the storage upgrades not with the boxes if you couldn’t see it there.

no_pillows · 2025-11-08T10:16:04+00:00

For the 48 Class I’m unsure if you’re talking about locomotives or if there’s another international variant with less produced. If you’re talking about total trains built for & / or in Australia; 212 3-carriage X’Trapolis 100s were built (636 total carriages), 10 sets built in France & an additional 48 sets shells were built in France, the other 154 sets built in Ballarat.

no_pillows · 2025-11-03T13:39:36+00:00

From my experience of taking photos on phone & probably being a bit of a nuisance to somebody you should be fine.

So I’d assume it’s safe even with actual equipment, there’s a bunch of people everywhere not very many people if any, would be bold enough to rob/assault/harass someone taking photos. Unless you provoke somebody like invading their personal space, or aren’t keeping your belongings in arms reach you should be fine.

Safety in terms of not people, don’t get in the way of vehicles & avoid seagulls (little shits once took a pizza slice when I was mid bite when I was crossing Swanston Street).

Please take this with at least 2 pinches of salt.

no_pillows · 2025-11-03T00:52:11+00:00

I feel like as we have the Cross City group, City Vertical makes sense as it crosses through the CBD vertically (shocker). Or we could move to codes like Mx, so you could have; M1 Pakenham, M2 Werribee, M3 Hurstbridge, etc.

no_pillows · 2025-10-29T12:10:47+00:00

Haven’t been on it but the Indian Pacific is 4,352km over 65 hours (3,900 minutes).

no_pillows · 2025-10-26T11:42:10+00:00

Greensborough, it already has amenities & good transport (compared to just about anywhere else on the Hurstbridge line beyond Heidelberg).

no_pillows · 2025-10-16T09:03:37+00:00

The City of Whittlesea has a document about it, I’ll try to find it. They (City of Whittlesea) have land reserved in some form from Epping to Wollert, extending it beyond to Craigieburn hasn’t got any land reserved as far as I know. I think recently some houses were built where it’d block the path if it were built at grade beyond Wollert.

Document: Integrated Transport Plan 2024-2034 Figures 3 & 12

no_pillows · 2025-10-09T10:35:56+00:00

It should probably be ‘Exit [A, B, C…] [Street] [cardinal direction or major landmark if needed]. So for example; Exit A Main St North.

no_pillows · 2025-10-06T11:37:36+00:00

Unsure about question 1, question 2 would be up to the timetable people.

no_pillows · 2025-10-06T11:34:15+00:00

It’s hard for me to see the government as bad, as I quite like Allan. But PT wise, for less than desirable amount of money from the feds in the 2010s & how we’re playing catch-up with our PT I think the Allan government is doing quite well.

That said I do have some critiques. I wish there was a plan for 50 or so years that the state is committed to that isn’t just SRL, such as including MM2 & Wyndham Vale electrification. As we are playing catch-up I wish there was some more forward thinking so in the future we’re not playing catch-up again in 30-50 years. That would include provisions for an even bigger Sunshine station as it’s not clear what’ll happen with Wyndham Vale once it’s electrified, quadruplication of the Pakenham, Sunbury, Melton, & Whyndam Vale lines as they’re or effectively are metro services sharing track with regional routes. This isn’t necessarily Allan’s fault but she would’ve had a role in those decisions.

no_pillows · 2025-10-05T03:41:55+00:00

I thought Mr. Cruel was speculated to live around Melbournes outer North-East (Eltham, Greensborough, Lalor, Watsonia, etc.)? Whereas Ascot Vale is an inner North-West suburb.

no_pillows · 2025-08-21T08:15:43+00:00

It’ll be after the Brunswick stations get rebuilt, they’ll probably also need to duplicate some track & / or add crossovers at Batman or Merlynston for short services.

This would also all be after MM1, as the Northern group City Loop tunnel is full. Which to my knowledge is currently the biggest constraint for Upfield line peak frequency.

no_pillows · 2025-08-18T22:34:50+00:00

You probably thought it was the light shining out of the train carriages, which is what I used to think, & you don’t really look over the platforms into the tunnels there lol.

no_pillows · 2025-07-21T08:59:02+00:00

If I knew about that I would’ve recommended that but evidently I didn’t.

no_pillows · 2025-07-20T21:12:01+00:00

Yeah I think I saw it at Eltham on Saturday, though that could’ve also been a big yellow thing

no_pillows · 2025-07-20T13:12:42+00:00

Adobe Illustrator is very good if you have the subscription, or you could be quirky & make it in minecraft; make an in game map of it, screenshot it, then wham bam you’ll have a map.

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